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| Departures |
Winner of the 2008 Grand Prix des Americas, the highest award at the Montreal World Film Festival, and Japan's official entry for the 2009 Academy Awards foreign language category,
Departures is a life-affirming drama from director Yojiro Takita.
Returning to his hometown after his orchestra disbands, cellist Daigo is in search of a new life, a new job and a new direction. To everyone's horror, he finds himself working in a mortuary, surrounded by the deceased.
Every day, he prepares the departed for the afterlife with delicate ritualistic care. Daigo finds the balance he has been searching for all along, the discovery of life through death.
